As you know, March is Women's History Month. Have you seen any special lessons or units of study that have addressed that particular topic? How is the school in which you are observing handling Women's History month? What might you do on the second grade level to introduce women's history to your young students? Is it an important topic? How might you celebrate this particular topic or would you devote time to it during the entire school year?
I know that a once a week the class does read alouds of books that relate to Women's History Month. I haven't observed on days when they've done read alouds of books for Women's History Month. February is also Disability Awareness Month, so they do read alouds with that too, which I have seen. Our second grade class is discussing communities right now, so I think a goood way to integrate Women's History Month is to talk about women who have helped their communities or women who have helped the Caldwell community. I think it's important that children know about significant women in history and Women's History Month is a great month to highlight some of these women's work.
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DeleteI have not seen any special lessons or units of study that have addressed the topic of women's history month, nor have I seen any lessons on women's history month while observing. At the second grade level, to introduce women's history month the teacher might open their classes by giving a brief introduction to a well known women in history. The teacher could also have the students do a biography project on a women of history and make them present this project at the end of the month. I think it is an important topic for students to learn about women's history month so they know some historical figures who are women.
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